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CREWE, ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON

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CREWE
CREWE, ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON

CREWE, See also:
ROBERT
ROBERT (1275—1343)
ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)
ROBERT OFFLEY See also:
ASHBURTON
ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING
ASHBURTON, JOHN DUNNING, 1ST
ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES, 1ST See also:

EARL

EARL Of (1858– ), See also:

ENGLISH

English statesman and writer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 12th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1858, being the son of See also:

Lord See also:

HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1ST BARON (1809—1885)

Houghton (q.v.), and was educated at See also:

HARROW

Harrow and Trinity, See also:

Cambridge. In 188o he married Sibyl Marcia Grahalh, who died in 1887, leaving him with two daughters. He inherited his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

LITERARY

literary tastes, and published Stray Verses in 189o, besides other See also:

MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous literary See also:

WORK

work. A Liberal in politics, he became private secretary to Lord See also:

Granville when secretary of See also:

state for See also:

FOREIGN

foreign affairs (1883–1884), and in 1886 was made a lord-inwaiting. In the Liberal See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of 1892–1895 he was lord-See also:

LIEUTENANT

lieutenant for See also:

Ireland, having Mr See also:

John See also:

Morley as See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief secretary. In 1895 he was created 1st earl of Crewe, his maternal grandfather, the 2nd See also:

Baron Crewe, having See also:

LEFT

left him his See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir. In 1899 he married See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

Margaret See also:

PRIMROSE

Primrose, daughter of the 5th earl of See also:

ROSEBERY, ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, 5TH

Rosebery. In 1905 he became lord See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council in the Liberal See also:

government; and in 1908, in Mr See also:

ASQUITH, HERBERT HENRY (1852– )

Asquith's See also:

CABINET

cabinet, he became secretary of state for the colonies and Liberal See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader in the See also:

House of Lords.

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